Thursday 16th April

A bit breezy today with rain in the morning and patchy sun into the afternoon.

Theo started with coastal habitats finding Great-Northern Divers, Black Guillemot, Wigeon, R-B Mergansers, Harbour Seals and a Grey Seals.

Visiting 2 Golden Eagle nest sites we saw the top of the females head at one but no visit from the male. At the next nest we could clearly see the female looking out before the male appeared up above soaring above the hill for a short while drying off!

Continuing with coastal habitats we visited a WTE nest site seeing the female on the nest before the male appeared and chased off another immature WTE before heading back for the nest site.

Onto moorland habitats we saw a large herd of Red Deer, A Golden Eagle soaring high up above a pair of Buzzards and a pair of Hen Harriers were quartering the moors in front of us. Another Golden Eagle appeared over the distant ridge in the scope.

Back to coastal habitats we saw displaying Red-breasted Mergansers and 3 Black-tailed Godwits, stopping off enroute to Iceland.

Trying more coastal habitats to try and find an elusive Otter we had better views of a perched up WTE in the spruce and another immature WTE flying close by, maybe its chick from last year as the adult didn't seem to concerned. At our final stop we had a few Swallows flying around and 4 Pink-footed Geese grazing with the other geese.